Advice on buying a hard drive

[neild79]

can anyone help me on buying a hard drive? my specs are: amd athlon 64 3000+ 2ghz, 256mb ddr pc3200, asrock k8vm800, 17gb hdd. i want something like 200gb.

 

[JMMD]

What kind of help do you need? Your motherboard should support SATA drives. Just get a cheap 200GB SATA drive. It should be around $70 on sale.

 

[SNGX1275]

SATA or regular IDE shouldn't matter if YOU don't have a preference. Pretty much all brands now have about same failure rates, so just get some 7200 with 8megs or higher cache and the best warranty.

 

[iss]

The only real advantage to using Sata drives is that leaves your IDe ports for more optical drives.